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Facebook Expects Coronavirus Will Have “additional impact” on Oculus Quest Availability

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After being backordered by weeks in many regions, Oculus Quest is now “unavailable” from Oculus in 17 out of 23 regions where the unit is sold, including the United States, Canada, and much of Europe. Facebook says the Coronavirus outbreak is to blame. United States. Netherlands. South Korea. Switzerland.

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Nreal Launches $600 ‘Light’ AR Glasses in United States via Verizon

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The tethered smartphone acts primarily as a laser pointer selector, something Oculus Go and Google Daydream users will be very familiar with in terms of UI interaction. Before its release in the US, Nreal has rolled out via telecoms in South Korea, Japan, Germany and Spain.

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SteamVR Update Adds Mallorca, A New Photogrammetry Environment

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Mallorca is an island located in the western Mediterranean sea, off the coast of Spain and part of the Balearic Islands. In last month’s SteamVR hardware survey, Quest 2 reached 47.92% of VR headset usage on the platform, creeping its way toward 50%. You can read more about last month’s SteamVR hardware results here.

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Amazon UK Lists Oculus Touch Pre-Orders with Price and Release Date

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Amazon’s UK retailer seems to have already jumped the gun on today’s supposed announcement taking place at Oculus Connect opening keynote, where we’ll likely hear official word on price, release date, and everything else surrounding the long awaited Touch controllers. Oculus Touch controllers to cost £190 in the UK.

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Discover Latin America’s XR ecosystem with Oscar Cartagena

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As for the agency, we did some cool stuff for Lenovo Chile earlier this year: worked on a very intense motoGP simulator for Oculus and also did this awesome screen pillar with Kinect. Sometimes we from Europe or the US don’t realize how is it difficult in other regions to get access to hardware.

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Pico launches Pico Neo 3 Link: the first true Quest 2 competitor (in Beta)

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Its latest headset, the Pico Neo 3 , was a very good Oculus Quest 2 clone , that also brought some innovations, like the DP Cable to connect it to the PC for a true PCVR experience. And for these reasons, Pico has been bought by Bytedance in 2021 … a move that many compared to the acquisition of Oculus by Facebook.

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Oculus For Business is now available for all companies

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Oculus has gained in these years always more success in the consumers’ landscape, and now with the Oculus Quest , thanks to an affordable device running great content , it is making strides in the market. Today, finally, Facebook has changed all of this and i s making Oculus For Business available to all interested companies.

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